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SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block
itwbennett writes "SCO Group announced Thursday that it plans to auction off most of its Unix assets, including 'certain UNIX system V software products and related services,' ITworld reports. 'This asset sale is an important step forward in ensuring business continuity for our customers around the world,' said Ken Nielsen, SCO chief financial officer, in a statement. 'Our goal is to ensure continued viability for SCO, its customers, employees and the Unix technology.' Interested parties must submit a bid for the assets by Oct. 5."
you cocksmoking teabaggers!
Do unto others ...
They're about to sue Linus Torvalds, after which they will own everything. (maniacal laughter)
Too bad Microsoft is infringing on no fewer than eleventy billion SCO patents too.
We're finding places where, line by line, they have stolen code that we stole from someone else!
Someone should buy it for $699.
I bid 50 quatloos on the newcomer!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
As your customer, will you ever-so-graciously promise not to sue me for using Linux?
Does that mean something in a foreign language or something?
I think "it it plans to auction off most of its Unix assets" means they plan to sell off their O'Reilly books on eBay.
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Trolling is a art,
Sure, but I'm pretty sure there's some infringing code in some version of Windows somewhere. I'm definitely gonna sue you for that one. I mean both operating systems have GUI's, so they must have copied the code straight from my stuff, right?
Absolutely amazing. They haven't had a modern up-to-date system in ages, it turns out they didn't even own what they claimed to own. They got rid of the only people who had any hope of maintaining anything technically back in the '90s and they tried to defraud everyone in reach. And yet, all these years later the corpse is still twitching.
It's like the end of the horror movie when the monster shows some vague sign of life just as the credits roll.
If you weren't aware, they're currently selling Windows 7, a decent operating system.
I'll put in twenty bucks, but only if the deal includes me giving Darl McBride a swift kick in the nuts.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Gah! Really?!? You mean to tell me you actually read the article? My God, what has Slashdot come to? We do not read articles here. Here, we make uninformed and inflammatory comments about the poorly written and factually incorrect summary, mister.
Seriously though, thanks for pointing that out. Ownership of the generic trade name "Unix" and copyright is something different from ownership of SCO Unix. But still, if the judge enjoined them from selling anything, I don't see how they can legally do this.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I know I know. My Bad.
I've been around almost as long as you, I should know better. Can I chalk it up to being a newbie??? ;)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Someone will, the cock smoking teabagger.
Maybe, but this isn't Soviet Russia. So instead we will have:
1. Buy SCO Unix assests.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Sure thing, six digits. :)
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Whoa, look, there ARE still a few of us 4-digit people around! :)
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Just when I thought my opinion of them couldn't fall any lower.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
More of you 4 digits than us 5 digits, I think. Seems our attrition rate is higher.
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I almost want to say "get off my lawn"...